A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...

Excerpts from an oral history interview with Marion F. "Sonny" Smith, conducted on 25 Sept. 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Smith served with the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the...

A typescript “to R. M. Baker, Administrator of Thomas W. Baker, Dec.d.” regarding an order “to pay into the office of the clerk of said County Court of Davidson Court, the balance … as such administrator in your final settlement with said court,...

A photograph of the old Felix Compton house, located at the northeast corner of Hillsboro Road and Harding Place in Nashville, Tennessee, 5050 Hillsboro Road (Hillsboro Pike), when it was the A.M Burton family residence, circa 1973. This...

Not a full page will, but rather a strip of letterhead from Merchants Bank, Nashville, inscribed with four names written on the verso: Frank Anderson, J. Winfield Graves, Jno. A Wright, and J. S. Beatle. A noted date is Sept. 18th and the...

An exterior view of Robertson Academy, circa July 1981. The inscription from the historic marker states that the school “was established by an Act of Tennessee General Assembly Sept. 13, 1806, which provided for an academy in each of the then 27...

A photograph of the tombstone of William Driver in Nashville City Cemetery, 2000. Driver is credited with nicknaming the American flag "Old Glory." A master mariner, on an 1831 voyage to the South Pacific aboard the 110-ton whaler Charles Doggett,...

An historic marker for William Walker, “The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny,” that reads: “Born May 8, 1824, Walker moved to this site from 6th Ave. N. in 1840. In early life he was doctor, lawyer & journalist. He invaded Mexico in 1853 with 46 men &...